Per Austrin graduated from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, 2008; his advisor was Johan Håstad. Following this he did post-docs at Institut Mittag-Leffler, New York University, and the University of Toronto. In his spare time he enjoys writing tepid biographic blurbs.

Mark Braverman graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada in 2008 under the supervision of Stephen Cook. He spent two years as a postdoc with Microsoft Research New England and a year as an assistant professor at the University of Toronto before coming to Princeton.

Eden Chlamtáč graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, in 2008; his advisor was Sanjeev Arora. He then spent two years as a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and one and three semesters as a postdoc at the University of Toronto and Tel-Aviv University, respectively, before coming to Ben Gurion University. If memory serves, when he used to have spare time he would enjoy playing piano and studying languages which rarely did him much good.